Stafford, VA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Stafford, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Stafford sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of August 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 789
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $557,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $209
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $452,000 and $690,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 789 closed sales in Stafford over the last six months, with a median closing price of $557,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $452,000 and $690,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. Across the 787 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $181 and $250 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Stafford, VA (August 2026)

The median home price in Stafford is $557,000, measured across the 789 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $452,000 and $690,000.

Where Stafford sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Stafford over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $452,000 and $690,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 13 days, across 455 Stafford closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 341 Stafford closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Stafford angle

Stafford's quartiles sit closer together than in most markets we track, so its median closed sale price is a stronger starting anchor than a citywide median usually is. Across 789 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $557,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $452,000 and $690,000, with somewhat more room above the median than below it. Work that tight band to your advantage: establish first that the subject is typical for Stafford, and then treat any number far outside the middle half as something that needs evidence from matched closings rather than optimism.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,516+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Stafford address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Stafford, VA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 789
Median sold price: $557,000
Median sold $/sqft: $209 (787 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/stafford-va-housing-market

The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Stafford over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. Stafford is a community within a larger municipality rather than a separate incorporated city, so these figures cover the Stafford postal area rather than a city boundary. The closings we track inside the Stafford postal area are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 13% of the 789 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $571,000.